Our Leadership Team
Matt Holt-Rogers
Director & Consultant
More about Matt
Matt’s journey into the world of health and wellbeing started during his time as a ski race coach, where he prepared athletes for the European race circuit. Driven by his passion for coaching, he sought further qualifications in personal training, nutrition, and coaching.
He expanded his scope further by collaborating with other occupational health and wellbeing providers as a dedicated health coach and technician.
Over the course of six years, Matt’s unwavering dedication to coaching and health led him to his current role as Director and Head of Wellbeing at Wellbeing4business Ltd.
In his present capacity, Matt is at the forefront of guiding NHS and large corporate organisations towards enhanced processes and strategies that elevate occupational health, wellbeing, and absence management.
Additionally, he plays a crucial role in providing Mental Health First Aid training to various NHS and private entities, fostering a supportive environment for mental health awareness.
Matt is actively involved in delivering and coordinating our health check programs, both in the NHS and private organisations, ensuring comprehensive wellbeing programmes are integrated seamlessly.
Matt’s expertise and commitment are the driving force behind our mission to empower organisations with the knowledge and tools to thrive in the realm of health & wellbeing.
He continues to pave the way for healthier, happier, and more productive workforces.
Mark Holt-Rogers
Founder & MD
More about Mark
Mark has had over 40 years working in health and wellbeing:
- Physical education teacher UK and Bahamas
- Tennis coach, triathlon coach and personal trainer
- Master Trainer teaching Fitness Instructors
- Government advisor on corporate health & wellbeing
- Advisor to BARLA (British amateur rugby league) and FSMT (Fellowship of sports masseurs)
- Product development with BOWFLEX, Fitech, Businesshealth and recently M&S on the award winning planahealth programme.
In 2003 he established Wellbeing4business Ltd. The journey began with EON as the first client, and soon his expertise gathered recognition from prominent organisations like NHS trusts and household names such as National Grid, Crossrail, and numerous councils.
Currently, Mark provides consultancy to organisations on developing OH & wellbeing strategies that pave the way for healthier and more vibrant workplaces.
Mark is also an Executive wellbeing coach and master trainer working with high performance people specialising in stress, resilience, burnout and energising excellence.
About our Workplace Health & Wellbeing Consultancy
Established in 2003, we are a trusted Lancashire-based consultancy specialising in Workplace Health & Wellbeing.
We have an extensive history of working alongside large corporates (public & private), NHS Trusts, and SMEs across the UK and Europe. We bring a wealth of experience to the table.
At our core, we are dedicated to developing practical, data-driven solutions that prioritise the wellbeing and performance of employees and their organisations.
Our team of experts is here to offer strategic support, deliver valuable project consulting, and ensure your workforce thrives.
Our team has consulted in Government Strategic Groups with Dame Carrol Black, a current SOM (Society of Occupational Medicine) Commercial Providers Forum attendee.
We firmly believe that good health is good business and that wellbeing drives personal happiness and performance.
"Employee experience should always match or exceed the experience of your customers or patients." - Matt Holt-Rogers
Our Core Principles:
Engage people to adopt healthy behaviour.
Drive health as a commercial advantage.
Create high-value, efficient and effective programmes
Energise leaders to create healthy & well workplaces
Have a business & human impact
Our Intentions
Improve business & personal health
Provide best practice bespoke solutions
Be thought leaders & innovators
Client Testimonials
Gill Tait - Associate Director of Human Resources, Sheffield University
Wellbeing4business was selected, from a number of providers, to undertake a review and audit of the Occupational Health, Wellbeing and Counselling services at The University of Sheffield .
The Terms of Reference for the review and audit demanded a comprehensive review of the services be undertaken, taking into account stakeholder views, and a report to be prepared and presented detailing the key findings and recommendations
Sue Guest - Head of Health Safety, E.ON UK
Working with Wellbeing4business Ltd has been truly worthwhile for E.ON UK.
We realised that we needed to develop a stronger foundation for employee wellbeing.
The audit and strategic consultancy helped us to develop a wellbeing strategy which enabled us to see how we could integrate our safety, health and work life balance activities.
Michael Fox - Manager, HR Operations, ESB Dublin
Wellbeing4business undertook a review of our internal Occupational Health function to independently assess our capability in this area and to make recommendations on areas to focus on to enhance the quality and value of this service.
The team at Wellbeing4business were very professional and efficient in their approach and dealt with our team in a very courteous and respectful manner.
The recommendations for enhancement to our Occupational Health activity were very comprehensive and insightful. These recommendations coupled with their general views on how we might grow our overall health and wellbeing services were very valuable to our company.
Our Work/Success Stories
Sector Experience
Why Choose Us
- We have a track record spanning 15 years
- We have experience working in most sectors
- We provide business-driven, and person-centred solutions
- We have reduced absence through our consultancy
- We have audited and transformed over 25 NHS Trusts Occupational health services reducing costs & improving services
- We have improved personal wellbeing on an organisation, group & personal level
- We have won awards for our clients (Employee Benefits, Personnel Today)
- We work with you, not for you
- We care
Wellbeing Success
- Provided Business Readiness Check to NHS Trusts during pandemic
- Supported HR professionals in association with the HPMA during lockdown by running a free 30:30 activity challenge. 315,319 minutes of activity achieved by 190 people
- Provided bespoke wellbeing programmes to clients, including the Heathrow Business Centre Westinghouse, Bishop Rawstorne Academy, MBDA, and National Grid, targeting a specific aspect of wellbeing. National Grid lost over 315 stone on our £4pound challenge.
- Provided on-site health screening to clients throughout the UK
- Delivered Mental Health First Aid courses to public and private sector clients online and on-site
- Developed the WELL121 digital coaching platform
- Designed and delivered bespoke wellbeing challenges and group and personal coaching to over 100 clients, including Unilever, Compass Group, and Dudley Building Society and provided challenges for associations such as Lancashire Mind.
Consultancy Achievements
- We have audited and written strategies for various clients, including 26 NHS Trusts, ESB Ireland, 12 Councils, and private sector clients, including SAAP, Sheffield and Liverpool Universities EON.
- Our work with the Foods standards agency in 2002/3 reduced absenteeism from 17.7 days to 8.4 days.
- Our work with Heart of England NHS Trust in 2008/9 enabled us to develop an integrated wellbeing strategy that helped the Trust to reduce absence and engage senior leaders in Energy and Vitality. Sickness overall in the Trust has come down by 2%. Long-term absence was reduced by 37% in 12 months. Of 100 long-term cases, 80 are ‘closed’ with the majority back at work.
- We have enabled our clients to enter and win numerous prestigious awards, such as Personnel Today and Employee Benefits. Out of the City of York, schools won three awards in 2003.
- Consultancy support to Gloucester County Council saved £86,953, or 23% of the original budget. Our work with Kings College Hospital enabled us to reduce costs on OH by £500,000, redevelop a more visible and efficient service and introduce new concepts such as a vocational rehabilitation service and overall wellbeing strategy. In 2011 we successfully merged the trusts OH service with the South London and Maudsley.
- We provide audits and consultancy to Crossrail to manage the health of construction workers.
- We built the NHS Buckinghamshire wellbeing strategy and conducted numerous focus groups and training to help manage staff through difficult organisational change.
- We wrote the wellbeing strategy for the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and trained teams of champions to work in the promotion of the strategy and management of mental health support#
- With the board’s approval, we restructured ELHT NHS Trust and launched its wellbeing strategy.
Product Design History
- Built wellbeing websites for companies including Marks and Spencer, Health Assured and Westinghouse.
- Built a library of videos, fact sheets and programmes. Had over 108,000 views of our videos
- Built the UK’s first Health Risk Assessment in 2003 and developed numerous tools for PPC Worldwide, Validium, Team Prevent, Wellbeing People and Warwick international computing.
- Developed the award-winning planahealth corporate website in 2010 for Marks and Spencer’s attracting over 15000 users in the first 8 months
- Developed Fitness/lifestyle assessment software that is used by over 1500 Occupational Health Departments and leading fitness centres
- Developed an online Health club for Bowflex, the worlds leading supplier of fitness equipment
- Developed a Sleep Assessment product with Loughborough University for workplace risk and performance enhancement
- Developed an e-learning management training programme on attendance and stress
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